Necromancer Selene Vanream helps ghosts settle
their affairs so they can move on. But when breaking the rules gets her in
trouble, she's bumped down to tracking ghosts trying to avoid the afterlife.
Ghosts like Ethan Lance, who claims he was kicked out of his body when someone
else jumped in. Which might be plausible—if such a thing were possible. And if
Micah, Selene's partner, didn't pull her into an investigation of brutal
murders that lead directly back to Ethan.

But when the whole mess puts Selene's life in
danger, she suddenly has very personal reasons to get Ethan's body back.
Between her uncomfortable relationship with Micah, and problems with her boss,
Selene learns just how much trouble it can be when you don't follow the
rules...

You could say that Selene Vanream has a lot of
problems. First there's the Rot that's slowly killing her, despite everything
Ilyse and Micah are doing to find a way to save her.

Then there's Andrew, the ghost of her boss who
is anchored to the living world. Selene would like to ignore him, but anchored
ghosts with unsettled business turn into anchored beasties, so she can't write
him off. The government has sent a team to post up at Affairs of the Dead and
keep an eye on her, which includes making sure she plays up to Andrew to keep
him from turning.

On top of that, someone is using Selene's new
power to create anchored ghosts for their loved ones to keep around. Not good
since the culprit doesn't have a clue about that whole anchored beastie angle.
Now Selene has a criminal to catch while trying to stay out of the hands of
government goons who have stripping her reanimation power on their
agenda.

When Micah and Ilyse finally find a way to save
her, Selene thinks she can cross one bad thing off her list--until she learns
the terrible price that must be paid to keep her alive. Full plate doesn't
cover it. Overflowing plate doesn't cover it. Selene's plate has damn near
exploded.

Selene Vanream died—for two minutes. After being
revived, she spends over a month in a coma before she awakes, free from the Rot
and the reanimation power that caused her so much trouble. No one can explain
how Selene survived killing Renton while he possessed her reanimation power,
and her reunion with Micah is marred by the choices they each made to save her
and stop Renton.

But even though she's Rot free, she isn't
problem free. First, she no longer has a job at Affairs of the Dead. And Ethan
is missing and she can't track him down. Not only that, ghosts that were sent to
the Afterlife with unfinished business have somehow crossed back and are trying
to settle the score in violent ways. If that wasn't enough, Selene discovers
that dying briefly has more consequences than she realized, because when she
was revived, not all of her came back. Now she's straddling both the living
world and the dead, and she will find out what it means to come back to life
but leave part of her soul behind.

A.J. Locke is
originally from Trinidad & Tobago and currently resides in New York City.
She knew early on that she wanted to be a writer, penned her first novel at
fourteen, and hasn’t stopped since. Creating is her passion, and other than
writing she enjoys drawing, painting, graphic design, and any other creative
whim that may take her.

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